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Speaker 2: to be with you to start this new year. Nine

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Speaker 2: in the next segment. But we are going to start

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Speaker 2: right off by going to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line.

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Speaker 2: And it is always a privilege to welcome to the program.

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Speaker 2: Dennis Neil. You know mister Neil from his work Oh Gosh,

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Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business, c NBC. He of

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Speaker 2: course is the author of the great book The Leadership

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Speaker 2: Genius of Elon Musk. Dennis Neil, Happy New Year, Welcome

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Speaker 2: back to the program.

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Speaker 3: It's great to talk to you, Jeff. Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 3: It's a wonderful twenty twenty six off to a fantastic start.

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Speaker 3: The run twenties are here, baby.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But you're in New York right like you have

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Speaker 2: been for four decades. I'm scared to death for people

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And I am leaving New York come January fifteenth,

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Speaker 3: moving down to South Florida. Although in this case it's

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Speaker 3: not because of Kami mom Donnie. It's because of mom

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Speaker 3: little more help right now, you know. So I'm leaving

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Speaker 3: the city after that long it looks you know, it's

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Speaker 3: one thing to go into a small place like Portland, Oregon,

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Speaker 3: which I've been studying for my next book. Oregonors and

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Speaker 3: look at how liberal crazy policies just wrecked that city. Okay,

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Speaker 3: but New York is so big, so sprawling, you know,

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Speaker 3: six million to nine million in the metro area that

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Speaker 3: Probably, I used to fall twenty to thirty percent in

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Speaker 3: the next five years. Maybe, but they will always come back.

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Speaker 3: So I'm trying to take an optimistic look on that,

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Speaker 3: even as I see already Donnie making critical errors. You know,

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Speaker 3: do you know that he said that we're going to

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Speaker 3: end the suite of homeless camps, meaning homeless camping anywhere

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Speaker 3: they want is going to presumably be allowed. Man, that

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Speaker 3: went really bad for the people in Portland. It's a

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Speaker 3: big bad idea. Also, he just appointed a guy who

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Speaker 2: a moment, but it is one thing. And God bless

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Speaker 2: the people of Portland. You know they don't deserve this either,

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Speaker 2: but it's one thing for it to be Portland. It's

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Speaker 2: him saying Iran as a democratic socialist, whatever that is.

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Speaker 2: And I'm going to govern as a democratic socialist. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I get that. But we'll replace rugged individualism with the

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Speaker 3: It's communism, collectivism, the collective meaning everyone gets an equal

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Speaker 3: the American way. That for sure, that sure Attech is

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Speaker 3: did this book, The Leadership Genius Beyond Musket, offers eleven lessons.

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Speaker 3: One lesson is Elon thinks that the most likely outcome

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Speaker 3: of New York electing a socialist like Mom Donnie is

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Speaker 2: Dennis Neil is our guest, the noted financial journalist. The

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Speaker 2: book that was released just about a year ago, The

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Speaker 2: Leadership Genius of Elon Musk. You get that wherever you

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Speaker 2: get your good books these days. His forthcoming book or

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Speaker 2: a Gonners, And I was struck by how quickly now

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Speaker 2: the collectivism that some had in mind. But they they

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Speaker 2: also and I wouldn't know the difference, but they also

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Speaker 2: he was talking about this is now the people's government,

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Speaker 2: the people's city. Well, first it was invitation only to

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Speaker 2: no place to use the bathroom. I think that's he's

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Speaker 2: governing right from the start, out of the socialism and

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Speaker 3: Right, And don't forget that. As soon as he was elected,

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Speaker 3: literally I think it was the next day, he was

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Speaker 3: And you contract that with Donald Trump, who you know,

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Speaker 3: wants to build the most lavish, beautiful, you know, grand

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Speaker 3: got this? But is that the triumphal art, the arts

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Speaker 3: you can want. This guy is already imposing breadlines practically.

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Speaker 2: So when Mandanmi, as a mayor elect, went to the

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Speaker 3: Let's think about this one. I haven't been asked. This

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Speaker 3: it was more incumbent upon Mamdanni to go there and

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Speaker 3: And so mam Donni lost because he went there and

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Speaker 3: moment where a reporter says, you know, you just Mamdani,

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Speaker 3: And then sort of every president I met Philip Clinton

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Speaker 3: was very touching that someone who himself, had you been

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Speaker 2: I also thought the image from the Oval Office was

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Speaker 2: in those chairs that flank the fireplace, or there might

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Speaker 2: be a pody and they each are standing. In this case,

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Speaker 2: Trump was seated at the desk and Mandami was to

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Speaker 2: was a power thing going on there that was subtle.

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Speaker 2: But I agree with you when he reached out and said, sorry,

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Speaker 2: You know, you've got your brand to uphold.

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Speaker 3: In the other words, right right, So who looks weak

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Speaker 3: in that moment and who looks strong? You know?

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Speaker 5: And Trump clearly looked stronger.

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Speaker 3: And I think that those positionings like that, don't you

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Speaker 2: Oh without question, I mean and again Trump with his

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Speaker 2: go to Oregon for his next book, forthcoming book called Oregoners,

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Speaker 2: which as we learned, will be written from the sunny

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Speaker 3: Yes, well, and it's already underway. You know, as I

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Speaker 3: so I'm watching that, and I'm looking at the antics

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Speaker 3: let's send two hundred National Guard troops in there. Well,

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Speaker 3: the governor, the mayor, the entire congressional delegation, both the

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Speaker 3: apoplectic about this. This is so terrible, this is so wrong. Guys,

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Speaker 3: You've had protesters for one hundred nights at a building

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Speaker 3: then I realized they're blinded and brainwashed. And then I

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Speaker 3: and it's donning. Oregon for decades was one of the

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Speaker 3: For decades, they thought they were all that. They were

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Speaker 3: absolutely awful. It's lost forty thousand jobs in that rather

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Speaker 3: SNAP than the national average. It just had unemployment hit

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Speaker 2: It is a tremendous case study, and the forthcoming book

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Speaker 5: Jeff, Happy New Year to YouTube brother, and coming from

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Speaker 5: see this happen again. I think the President is right

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Speaker 5: to take a strong deterrent here against the Ayatola. I

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Speaker 5: also think he's right to stand with the Iranian people themselves.

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Speaker 5: They want to see change. They've been asking for this.

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Speaker 3: My entire life.

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Speaker 5: We're at forty six years now since the revolution, and

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Speaker 5: the Ayatola has made Ran a much worse, much more

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Speaker 5: dangerous country and certainly a hotbed for funding terrorism. It's

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Speaker 5: one of the reasons I've led legislations to stinction Iranian

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Speaker 5: oil tankers their ghost fleet. The President's gone after him

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Speaker 5: just here this month, and we're cutting off their ability

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Speaker 5: to fund themselves. Standing with the Iranian people is not

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Speaker 5: a bad thing, ever, particularly when they're trying to have

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Speaker 5: their own version of an American revolution, throwing off a

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Speaker 5: you know, a dictatorial regime that's over them. But it's

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Speaker 5: tough for the Iranian people to do this. The American

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Speaker 5: government should not be the one leading the charge on this.

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Speaker 5: And I think the President's clear that, you know, we

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Speaker 5: stand in support of people who want democracy in their country,

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Speaker 5: but they're the ones who are going to have to

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Speaker 5: take points.

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Speaker 2: Zach Nunn, Congressman, third District of Iowa non dot House,

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Speaker 2: dot gov his campaign website, because yes, we're in that

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Speaker 2: season again, Zach. There's a nice subtle donate button if

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Speaker 2: you're so inclined. And Congressman Nunn joins us on the

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Speaker 2: Todd Starn Show live on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line.

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Speaker 2: So as you return to Washington, the number I saw

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Speaker 2: on I may be off by a day or two.

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Speaker 2: There are only twelve session days scheduled between now and

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Speaker 2: the end of the month, and that's when the latest

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Speaker 2: continuing resolution expires. What do you think is going to happen?

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Speaker 2: What's the talk? What are the plans to avoid another

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Speaker 2: Schumer shutdown?

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Speaker 5: Well, Jeff, we saw the tragedy that occur under Schumer

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Speaker 5: before when the government was shut down its longest ever

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Speaker 5: in history. Because Democrats couldn't figure out why they wanted

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Speaker 5: to shut down. They just know for campaign purposes they

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Speaker 5: had primaries they had to win. Here's the reality we

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Speaker 5: are able to move forward multiple appropriations bills. We were

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Speaker 5: able to get several true for things like ag for

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Speaker 5: transportations for defense. This is the way government should be functioned.

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Speaker 5: I want to see it continue to operate that way.

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Speaker 5: At the same time, you know, you have a very

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Speaker 5: short run way. And I hate to say this, but

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Speaker 5: in Washington, d C. The only way you get some

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Speaker 5: of these folks to get their job done is to

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Speaker 5: hold a match under their feet. And we're about to

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Speaker 5: hold a blowtorch to Washington DC's feed on saying we

479
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Speaker 5: have got to get our spinding down, our bills passed,

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Speaker 5: and we need to be able to do it in

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Speaker 5: twelve days.

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Speaker 3: As you know here.

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Speaker 5: Now, what the Democrats are going to do is they're

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Speaker 5: going to try and jam folks in it. I really

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Speaker 5: hope this does not return to a shutdown scenario where

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Speaker 5: we don't pay our troops, we don't pay our air

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Speaker 5: traffic controllers. We see Americans suffer at the hands of

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Speaker 5: DC Democrats who candidly couldn't manage to lead when they

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Speaker 5: had the majority and now are being obstructionists when they're

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Speaker 5: stuck in the minority. That said, I feel very confident

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Speaker 5: We've got a aggressive agenda here in the House. We've

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Speaker 5: already passed a lot here in December, and so we're

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Speaker 5: keyed up for success when we march in the door

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Speaker 5: on Mondays.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that has been a claimed sticking point,

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Speaker 2: and I concur with what you suggested that so much

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Speaker 2: of the Democrat action was politically motivated to win elections

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Speaker 2: and just have those talking points, but they're perceived or

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Speaker 2: they're espoused reason for shutting things down health care subsidies,

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Speaker 2: et cetera. Now, granted, that's something that they sat up

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Speaker 2: with all of this extra money going to insurance companies.

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Speaker 2: But one thing that the Republicans were able to do

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Speaker 2: as part of the Reconciliation bill that folks are just

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Speaker 2: now starting to learn rural areas and a lot of

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Speaker 2: folks in this audience, in Starn's Nation are living in

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Speaker 2: rural areas. Access to healthcare is really difficult, and there

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Speaker 2: was a pile of money in that Reconciliation bill that

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Speaker 2: has just been awarded that's going to make a big

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Speaker 2: difference for a lot of folks in between the big

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Speaker 2: cities where actually most of us live.

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Speaker 5: Jeff, You're absolutely right. Let's put fifty billion dollars back

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Speaker 5: to our rural hospitals, and we want to make sure

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Speaker 5: the primary healthcare is something that's available for every American,

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Speaker 5: not just those living in big blue cities.

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Speaker 3: I also want to make.

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Speaker 5: Sure that we've got the workforce there it's going to

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Speaker 5: be successful. So what part of our investment is doing

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Speaker 5: is my bill of to train more nurses Act. Let's

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Speaker 5: just get more nurses into our community hospitals, our assisted

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Speaker 5: living facilities so that rural Iowa has a real chance

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Speaker 5: to be successful Here.

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Speaker 3: We're also leading things.

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Speaker 5: Like rural broadband that helped make sure that telehealth medicine

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Speaker 5: is real, and we're providing transparency for our local pharmacists,

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Speaker 5: getting rid of the middleman in pharmaceuticals, the PBMs that

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Speaker 5: drive up these costs that mean it's more expensive to

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Speaker 5: buy a prescription here in the United States than it

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Speaker 5: is in Canada, and microscope makes zero sense. These are

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Speaker 5: real tangibles that we can offer up to rural America

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Speaker 5: to be successful. And Jeff, I want to join you. Look,

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Speaker 5: I think we all recognize healthcare in America has some

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Speaker 5: real hard breaks in it. It makes no sense that

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Speaker 5: it costs, you know, every American more for their healthcare,

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Speaker 5: or that you can go in to see a doctor

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Speaker 5: and you don't know what your final cost is going

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Speaker 5: to be until months later when an insurance company sends

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Speaker 5: you the bill for it.

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Speaker 3: We need price transparency.

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Speaker 5: We need to fix the Unaffordable Care Act that drove

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Speaker 5: up premiums for people on the APA by as much

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Speaker 5: as twenty six percent. And we need to recognize that

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Speaker 5: there are insurance companies that, prior to Obamacare, we're you know,

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Speaker 5: making profits of about five hundred billion, and now they're

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Speaker 5: up to over nearly two trillion dollars. That doesn't make

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Speaker 5: sense because that's not money reinvested in healthcare. That's money

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Speaker 5: that's going directly to health insurance companies. They're not returning

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Speaker 5: it back to you know, providers Like this bottom line,

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Speaker 5: I want to see healthcare costs come down, not just

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Speaker 5: for folks who are on the Unaffordable Care Act. I

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Speaker 5: want to see them come down for every single American.

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Speaker 5: We passed legislation in the House that brings it down

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Speaker 5: double digits. I think this is a pathway to success

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Speaker 5: and being able to give patients and our medical providers,

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Speaker 5: not just in rural Iowa, but across the United States.

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Speaker 5: More transparency is going to make health care much better

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Speaker 5: for everybody.

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Speaker 2: Congressman Zach Nunn, third District of Iowa, Republican, joining us

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Speaker 2: on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line on the Todd Starn Show.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Stein filling in for Todd on this open Line Friday.

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Speaker 2: The problem, as I see it, though, is that you've

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Speaker 2: got a situation that was passed by Democrats that has

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Speaker 2: led to enhanced costs, not fewer costs. It's very much

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Speaker 2: like when we had these guaranteed federal student loans. They

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Speaker 2: were there for a good purpose to help people get

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Speaker 2: through school. But when the federal government's writing the zech

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Speaker 2: the universities and I worked for colleges and universities for

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Speaker 2: twenty five years, as you know, I mean, there was

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Speaker 2: no incentive for them to drop tuition because the kids

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Speaker 2: would just get these loans. That's not sustainable. Same thing here,

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Speaker 2: if you're going to subsidize the premiums, where's the incentive

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Speaker 2: for the healthcare industry to actually be affordable. The problem

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Speaker 2: is the Republicans, and this predates your time in the Chamber.

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Speaker 2: There's been no good alternative yet, So why do we

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Speaker 2: think twenty twenty six is the year where the Republicans

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Speaker 2: can actually come up with an anti Obamacare plan that

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Speaker 2: will work well.

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Speaker 5: Jeff, You're absolutely right on this. The reality is the

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Speaker 5: cost continue to go up. One of the concerns we

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Speaker 5: have here is that we want to make sure we're

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Speaker 5: providing healthcare plans that nobody falls off a cliff. Now

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Speaker 5: the transition point is real. The Democrats build in their

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Speaker 5: own trapdoor where the bottoms fill out on it, and

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Speaker 5: they were going to expect the American tax payer to

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Speaker 5: pick up the costs for their bloadd government spending plan,

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Speaker 5: and now they don't have control of government, so they're

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Speaker 5: asking Republicans to come bail them out. This gives Republicans

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Speaker 5: the first time since Obamacare was passed to make smart

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Speaker 5: reforms to healthcare. It actually helps Americans get the healthcare

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Speaker 5: they need at a price they can afford. It also

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Speaker 5: calls out both the insurance companies who have gotten as

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Speaker 5: you noted COVID, we are tax subsidies that have been

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Speaker 5: out there for the last five years.

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Speaker 3: Those need the sunset.

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Speaker 5: They should have sunset, you know, years ago, but they've

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Speaker 5: still been pumped into it. And as opposed to bringing

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Speaker 5: down healthcare costs. They're driving up healthcare costs for hundreds

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Speaker 5: of millions of Americans. We look to be able to

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Speaker 5: drive down our costs across the board by eleven percent.

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Speaker 5: We're allowing folks now to enroll in exchanges which are

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Speaker 5: going to help drive down communal costs. And also they're

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Speaker 5: going to help our healthcare system across the country, not

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Speaker 5: just a couple of the big guys who have health

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Speaker 5: insurance programs out of places like New York and California.

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Speaker 5: I also want to highlight here, Jeff, you know this

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Speaker 5: is an opportunity where real bipartison work could have come together.

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Speaker 5: This is something we should all agree on. But I

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Speaker 5: know this much. I know that every single Democrat voted

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Speaker 5: against any of these reforms. Every single Democrat in Congress

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Speaker 5: refused to do any type of transparency action PBM reform,

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Speaker 5: real things that would help both our patients and our

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Speaker 5: doctors be more successful. That's not a pathway to success.

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Speaker 5: That's trying to double down on a failed system that

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Speaker 5: is clearly going to bankrupt the tax payer and cost.

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Speaker 2: Us all more so in that transition, and it's a

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Speaker 2: painful transition. Are you going to have to approve a

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Speaker 2: bridge of some Obamacare subsidies just to get us through

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Speaker 2: this year, which of course is an election year. And

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Speaker 2: I'd be foolish if I didn't remind every one of that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think there's a real opportunity for

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Speaker 5: us to make a transition for folks who are on here.

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Speaker 5: In my home state of Iowa. You know, four percent

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Speaker 5: of folks are eligible for those subsidies, and maybe only

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Speaker 5: about half of them have actually filed a claim that

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Speaker 5: we're talking about less than two percent. I want to

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Speaker 5: focus on the one hundred percent of Iowans who need

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Speaker 5: healthcare insurance and talk about bringing all of their premiums down.

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Speaker 5: A legislation that we help pass would down everybody's bringing

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Speaker 5: them by tens, you know, percent or more. I think

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Speaker 5: that's a pretty darn good start to where we need

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Speaker 5: to be, and I want to make sure that no

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Speaker 5: family falls off. We've got a number of additional ways

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Speaker 5: that folks can get the assistance they need, and that's

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Speaker 5: one of the reasons we've led and you know, constituent services,

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Speaker 5: particularly in the healthcare area nationwide, of taken care of

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Speaker 5: ilce who need it.

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Speaker 2: And I like hearing that. Lastly, that you know, the

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Speaker 2: idea is, let's focus on the entire system. I want

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Speaker 2: you to highlight something that that you mentioned that this

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Speaker 2: was mentioned to me the other day and I did

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Speaker 2: not do the research on it. And you have the

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Speaker 2: round numbers when we start talking about these subsidies, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: How much of the population is really going to be

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Speaker 2: noticing this issue this year if there are no renewed

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Speaker 2: COVID era subsidies, because it we make a big deal

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Speaker 2: about a very small percentage of people. Now, no one

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Speaker 2: should be left behind. I'm not suggesting that, but to

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Speaker 2: shut down the government over what percentage of people in

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Speaker 2: the population, It seems rather tiny. If it's only a

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Speaker 2: couple of percent per state.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're out. You're absolutely right on this, and so

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Speaker 5: you know overall nationwide, and these are numbers directly from

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Speaker 5: the Government Accountability Office. You're the GAO who highlighted that

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Speaker 5: you know, fewer than seven percent of Americans even qualify

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Speaker 5: for these subsidies. Less than half of those have actually

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Speaker 5: filed for some type of premium, meaning that that money

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Speaker 5: went directly to insurance companies and not actually to patient care.

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Speaker 5: And that's that's the first red flag. The second aspect

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Speaker 5: of this, and I'll just talk to my home state

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Speaker 5: in Iowa. You know, maybe one hundred thousand folks would

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Speaker 5: qualify for this, less than half of those. So now

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Speaker 5: we're talking about two percent of all folks on healthcare

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Speaker 5: insurance in Iowa are impacted by this. And those folks

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Speaker 5: do have other methods largely available to them to help

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Speaker 5: offset that. And let's be clear here, we're not talking

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Speaker 5: about just taking away people's health care. We're talking about

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Speaker 5: take seeing the tax subsidies that were put out under

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Speaker 5: COVID to help drive down expenses and costs, and reforming

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Speaker 5: how those.

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Speaker 3: Are handed out.

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Speaker 5: The reality is it was a partial assistance program to

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Speaker 5: a very small percentage of the population back during COVID.

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Speaker 5: COVID is five years in the rearview mirror now, but

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Speaker 5: we continued to blast money, and as I noted, almost

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Speaker 5: half of that going just directly to insurance companies. That

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Speaker 5: should have driven down the overall costs for healthcare in

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Speaker 5: our country, but instead we've actually seen it increased by

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Speaker 5: twenty six percent. For those folks who were on the ACA.

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Speaker 5: That is money in the pocket of health care or

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Speaker 5: health insurance companies, and then an extra charge on top

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Speaker 5: of it for every America.

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Speaker 2: I'm way late on the break. But lastly, best Christmas

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Speaker 2: gift you got was what.

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Speaker 5: I got to spend the entire two weeks with my

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Speaker 5: six kiddos that I had kids home from college. I

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Speaker 5: had or the kindergarten home as well. And here in Ancany, Iowa,

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Speaker 5: where I will say the gas is a buck eighty five.

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Speaker 5: For anybody who's driving town, this is this is the

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Speaker 5: right place to join. So those two, in combinations best

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Speaker 5: gift I could get. Jeff, I hope it was just

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Speaker 5: as fun for you.

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Speaker 2: Well, I noticed you hesitated a moment because you're thinking

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Speaker 2: if I mention any gift, and I'm choosing a gift

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Speaker 2: of one of my children, and I can't do that.

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Speaker 2: So a good save. And the only thing I tell

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Speaker 2: you right now about Ancony, Iowa is the gas may

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Speaker 2: be cheap, but I think every road's under construction. I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure I can get to the gas station.

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Speaker 5: That's because so many people are coming here.

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Speaker 7: Right now.

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Speaker 2: There we go, Look at that stop.

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Speaker 4: I'm through.

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Speaker 5: Across the state Iowa.

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Speaker 2: Does it matter what I serve up? He's Batmant right back. Congressman,

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Speaker 2: Happy new Year to you. Thank you for the time.

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Speaker 2: Great way to start the year. We'll talk again soon.

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Speaker 5: That's great, Jeff, Happy new Year.

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Speaker 2: Congressman's Act None. He's in his second term Republican third

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Speaker 2: District of Iowa. That's the Des Moines metro area and

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Speaker 2: a lot of rural Iowa to the south and around it.

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Speaker 2: Zach Nunn. Nunn dot com his campaign website, non dot

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Speaker 2: House dot gov is the official website. And he joined

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Speaker 2: us on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker Line shortbreak. Now back

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Speaker 2: on the other side from the Liberty University Studio. Jeff

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Speaker 2: Stein filling in for Todd. Thanks for being along on

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Speaker 2: the Todd Starn Show. All right, that's one hour down

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Speaker 2: and two hours to go on this open line Friday.

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Speaker 2: So good of you to be along. Appreciate it. I'm

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Speaker 2: Jeff Stein filling in for Todd. Stay tuned. You've got

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Speaker 2: news and weather at the top of the hour, and

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Speaker 2: we're back with hour two on The Starn Show, Live from.

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Speaker 1: The Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's America's conservative blowtorch.

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Speaker 2: American to start. Weloe wherever you are listening across this

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Speaker 2: the greatest nation God ever blessed. Welcome to hour or

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Speaker 2: two of a Friday edition of The Todd starn Show

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Speaker 2: coast to coast on more than one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: Toddstarns dot com. Hello fellow Patriots. Jeff Stein filling in

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Speaker 2: for Todd. Coming to you today as per custom from

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Speaker 2: the Liberty University Studio and my home base in the

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Speaker 2: Free State of Iowa. News Talk fifteen to forty kxx

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Speaker 2: allenseda rapids and waterloo, the fifty thousand wad below torch

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Speaker 2: scorching the heartland with accurate news and reasonable views. And

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Speaker 2: it's an open line Friday, and we have held this

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Speaker 2: hour for your calls, and I would love to hear

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Speaker 2: from you on some of the news or what you

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Speaker 2: think might happen in twenty twenty six, same number as always,

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Speaker 2: nine oh one two two six oh five nine two six.

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Speaker 2: That's nine oh one two six oh five, nine two six,

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Speaker 2: And Dylan is handling the call screening. Helen is at

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Speaker 2: the controls of the mighty Wurlitzer, and we're often running

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Speaker 2: in this great new year twenty twenty six, and it

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Speaker 2: occurs to me a lot of us make resolutions to

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Speaker 2: start the new year, and we don't follow through with them, right.

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Speaker 2: I think the statistics show that we're good for I

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Speaker 2: don't know, seven eight, nine days, and then we start

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Speaker 2: breaking all of our resolutions. So maybe a better thing

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Speaker 2: to do is to come up with resolutions for other people.

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Speaker 2: In other words, what resolutions do you think other people

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Speaker 2: should have for the year? Talk about that or whatever

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Speaker 2: you like. Nine oh one, two six oh five, nine

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Speaker 2: two six your calls throughout this hour. Now, one of

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Speaker 2: the things if I was going to come up with

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Speaker 2: a resolution, it would be for Congress to do its job.

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Speaker 2: And in the last hour you heard the conversation with

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Speaker 2: an Iowa congressman. And I think he's a good guy.

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Speaker 2: I think he really believes in service, and he whenever

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Speaker 2: he introduces a piece of legislation, he looks for support

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Speaker 2: across the aisle. The problem is, broadly, the dysfunction of

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Speaker 2: Washington d c DC is just flat out broken, and

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Speaker 2: you would like to think that the leadership in Congress

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Speaker 2: could fix it. And despite the fact that Leader Thune

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Speaker 2: in the Senate was quoting all manner of statistics about

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Speaker 2: how many votes they have taken this year and it's

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Speaker 2: a record number, etc. I don't know. I don't feel

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Speaker 2: like Congress accomplished all that much, especially as we sit

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Speaker 2: here and there are only twelve days Congress is in

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Speaker 2: session before the Continuing Resolution expires, twelve days that they're

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Speaker 2: going to be working in January before a government shutdown potentially.

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Speaker 2: I don't care who you blame. It's a bad idea,

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Speaker 2: it's a bad look. You see so many people leaving

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Speaker 2: Congress this year, and many of them are running for

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Speaker 2: jobs in their home states. There are a lot of

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Speaker 2: folks leaving to run for governor for example. You do

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Speaker 2: have some members of the House running for the US Senate, etc.

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Speaker 2: But here's the question I have for all of these

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Speaker 2: folks who are running saying, I'm leaving Washington, I know

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Speaker 2: how to deliver for the home state. Don't you think

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Speaker 2: that voters are going to say, what did you do there?

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Speaker 2: What kind of a success were you there? What leads

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Speaker 2: us to think that we should give you the keys

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Speaker 2: to the treasury, the keys to the state capitol. I think, personally,

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Speaker 2: this is going to be an anti incumbent year. It

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Speaker 2: has nothing to do with who's in the White House.

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Speaker 2: It has everything to do with neither party showing leadership

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Speaker 2: that Americans deserve. In the US Congress. You may have

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Speaker 2: a net gain or loss for one party or the other,

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Speaker 2: but I think this is going to be an anti

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Speaker 2: incumbent year, and I think you could see some surprising results.

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Speaker 2: Now this is only as we're speaking the second day

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Speaker 2: of the year. There's plenty of time for Congress to

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Speaker 2: get its act together. Start by not shutting down the

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Speaker 2: government at the end of January, start by fixing a

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Speaker 2: number of other things. But this could be a year

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Speaker 2: where you see a lot of flips. Now, as noted,

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Speaker 2: I am in the state of Iowa, which a lot

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Speaker 2: of people think is a very red state recently election

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Speaker 2: returns would suggest that, yes, but it's really sort of

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Speaker 2: a purple state. And I'm here to tell you that

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Speaker 2: at this time next year, it would not surprise me

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Speaker 2: we have an open seat for governor and an open

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Speaker 2: seat for US Senate. I think it's the only state

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Speaker 2: in the country that has an o open seat for

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Speaker 2: both governor and US Senate in twenty twenty six. They're

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Speaker 2: both currently held by Republicans and I'm here to tell

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Speaker 2: you I think they're both going to be held by

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Speaker 2: Democrats by this time next year. This is not a

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Speaker 2: wave of one color or another, but it's because of

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Speaker 2: the specific races. You have certain people running who have

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Speaker 2: a history of being in Congress, and I think there

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Speaker 2: are going to be a lot of voters who say,

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Speaker 2: what did you do in the House that leads us

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Speaker 2: to think you should be elected to the Senate? What

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Speaker 2: did you do in the House that leads us to

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Speaker 2: think you should be elected governor? And these are valid

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Speaker 2: questions to ask, because my fear is that what we

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Speaker 2: are hearing from so many politicians on the right side

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Speaker 2: of the aisle is I am a strong supporter of

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Good, you should be, he's your president. But

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Speaker 2: what have you done to act that way? And this

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Speaker 2: is why I have a real problem with Congress right now.

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Speaker 2: If Congress and I understand all the problems of keeping

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Speaker 2: a thin majority in line, I understand all the problems

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Speaker 2: of the Senate, I get it, But how about you

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Speaker 2: try For example, if you are really a strong supporter

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Speaker 2: of this president and he has imposed tariffs, and you

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Speaker 2: know that they're being challenged in court, why don't you

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Speaker 2: as Congress, put the tariffs into law for all these

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Speaker 2: people saying the president does not have the power, and

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Speaker 2: that's a US Supreme Court case that's pending right now.

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Speaker 2: Why don't you go pass them yourself. You're Congress, go

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Speaker 2: ahead and pass it. If you don't like that. What

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Speaker 2: about all these executive orders? You folks have complained mildly

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Speaker 2: about government by executive order, and doesn't matter who the

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Speaker 2: president is, they just flip it back. You get the

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Speaker 2: auto pen in and they undo what the other guy did,

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Speaker 2: and then you undo the auto pen. We shouldn't have

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Speaker 2: government by executive order. Okay, See, if you're really supportive

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Speaker 2: of the Trump agenda, how about you take some of

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Speaker 2: those executive orders and put them into law. Those can't

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Speaker 2: just be overturned by the stroke of a pen. So,

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Speaker 2: if you're really a member of Congress, and you're really

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Speaker 2: a big supporter of Donald Trump, how about you pass

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Speaker 2: some of his executive orders as laws. Put him into

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Speaker 2: bill form. You've got a Congressional office that writes bills.

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Speaker 2: Start with number one. Don't you remember what number one was?

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Speaker 2: But start with number one and work your way through

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Speaker 2: the executive orders, Codify them, put them into law, or

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Speaker 2: at least try to. You could do that, and if

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Speaker 2: having Congress enact legislation to codify the tariffs, codify executive orders,

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Speaker 2: in other words, make all of those laws. If that's

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Speaker 2: too much to ask, how about you just pass a

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Speaker 2: budget on time. I've heard about certain spending bills and

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Speaker 2: they've made it through this chamber or that. But the

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Speaker 2: bottom line is we're nowhere near regular order. That's the

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Speaker 2: process of x number of spending bills passed independently as

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Speaker 2: opposed to this, heaven forbid a mess of a continuing resolution.

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Speaker 2: How about you just do your business. I don't get

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Speaker 2: the sense of urgency from most of these people. And

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Speaker 2: so when they say, as they run for reelection or

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Speaker 2: election to another office, hey, I am the biggest supporter

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump has. I see this in primaries, a lot

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Speaker 2: of elbows being thrown. Who's the biggest Trump supporter? Well,

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Speaker 2: talk is cheap. How about actually delivering on things to

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Speaker 2: support the president's agenda. And if you don't believe in

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Speaker 2: the president's agenda, okay, great, say so, be woman or

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Speaker 2: man enough to say so. But when you are telling

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Speaker 2: everybody you're the best friend Donald Trump ever had, and

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the list of accomplishments, I don't see it.

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Speaker 2: If you're saying you're the best friend Donald Trump ever

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Speaker 2: had just because you're running for office, well that's great.

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Speaker 2: But voters are savvy enough, and the informations available to them,

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Speaker 2: they could say, well, really, what have you done. Well,

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Speaker 2: we did the Reconciliation Bill, the big beautiful bill six

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Speaker 2: months ago, almost of the day, six months ago. How

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Speaker 2: about another one? How about anything else? That's problem I

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Speaker 2: think that we have in Washington is you've got Congress

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00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 2: use to the snail's pace, and you've got an American

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Speaker 2: public supporting a president that's ready to go. So where's

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Speaker 2: the hold up. Don't tell me you want a promotion.

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00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 2: Don't tell me you want a renewal of your job

881
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 2: because you're a great supporter of the president when you've

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00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 2: done very little to show that you are. And again,

883
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Speaker 2: if you're not, say so, don't be a standard politician.

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Speaker 2: Here we are the two hundred and fiftieth year of

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Speaker 2: the brave fifty six who signed the Declaration of Independence.

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00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 2: Two hundred and fifty years since that happened. The American

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Speaker 2: people want that kind of spirit again. They're not seeing

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Speaker 2: it right now out of Washington nine oh one two

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Speaker 2: six oh five, nine two six. I got that off

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Speaker 2: my chest. Would love to know what you think about that,

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Speaker 2: or make up some New Year's resolutions for other people?

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Speaker 2: What should certain other people do in this new year

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. It's an open line Friday nine oh

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Speaker 2: one two six oh five, nine two six. We'll take

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Speaker 2: your calls in the next segment as we continue from

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Speaker 2: the Liberty University Studio. Thanks for being along. I'm Jeff

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Speaker 2: Stein in for Todd, and you're listening to the Todd

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Speaker 2: Starn Show. Welcome back to the Liberty University Studio and

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Speaker 2: the Todd Starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in for Todd today,

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Speaker 2: Join this coast to coast conversation on an open line

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Speaker 2: Friday nine oh one two six oh five, nine two six.

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Speaker 2: It's nine oh one two six oh five, nine two six.

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Speaker 2: Happy to hear what's on your mind. And I've suggested

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Speaker 2: maybe we should come up with resolutions for others people.

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Speaker 2: Since we never keep our own, maybe we'd be better

906
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Speaker 2: telling other people what they ought to do. And I've

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Speaker 2: suggested Congress could start by actually doing its job. Love

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Speaker 2: to know what you think nine oh one two six

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Speaker 2: h five nine two six. You may have seen, and

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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's been discussed, but I was struck by

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Speaker 2: the Biden family Christmas card. Now, by the way, I

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Speaker 2: have some friends who say you can always tell when

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Speaker 2: a talk show host has run out of material because

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Speaker 2: they start talking about Joe Biden. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: that's true or not, but I want to go back

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Speaker 2: to this Christmas photo. Here's a photo of the Biden family. Now,

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Speaker 2: Joe's the guy, right, the big guy. They've got him

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Speaker 2: photoshopped in, talked behind doctor Jill and of all people,

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Speaker 2: Robert Hunter Biden his full name, as we learn from

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Speaker 2: thes is front and center. It's like he's the guy

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Speaker 2: in charge of the family. Now, I would love if

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Speaker 2: he decided to take up a political career, because you know,

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Speaker 2: those five hour podcasts that he does with people are great.

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Speaker 2: In any case, you don't even see all of Joe's face,

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Speaker 2: and he's kind of tucked in there behind doctor Jill

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Speaker 2: and the editing. I don't know much about this stuff.

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Speaker 2: I do a little bit of it, but it's like,

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Speaker 2: this is clumsy. I'm not sure he's even in the picture,

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Speaker 2: is my point. I think they just kind of photoshopped

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Speaker 2: him in there, which I don't know. What's his condition.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure it matters, but I also wonder, and

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Speaker 2: I just don't remember. Maybe one of you does. I

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Speaker 2: don't remember the last time a former president like that

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Speaker 2: who had no future political career. When did they start

935
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Speaker 2: issuing all of these photos and things? You know, here's

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Speaker 2: the Christmas message. I don't know, did George W. Bush?

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Speaker 2: Do they they publish big Christmas photos, family Christmas photos?

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Speaker 2: Doubt it? So I'm I'm I fear that we're not

939
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Speaker 2: done with the Biden crime family yet. But as noted, uh, okay, fine,

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Speaker 2: bring it on. I'm also not one of those, though,

941
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Speaker 2: who says, oh yeah, let's let's uh, let's wish for

942
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Speaker 2: the other party to put some really bad candidate out there.

943
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:33,400
Speaker 2: And the reason is because sometimes elections are stolen and

944
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Speaker 2: sometimes voters don't pay attention and they elect these people.

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Speaker 2: So I don't I don't necessarily want to have bad

946
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Speaker 2: people on ballots, because sometimes bad people wind up winning elections.

947
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Speaker 2: But boy, I tell you, you get Hunter out there now

948
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Speaker 2: taking shots at the people who didn't support his dad. Boy,

949
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Speaker 2: make some popcorn, because that could be plenty entertaining. In

950
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Speaker 2: the last hour, we talked about this embarrassment in the

951
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Speaker 2: New York City with the new mayor, and it was

952
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Speaker 2: striking how this is the new Democrat party. And I've

953
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Speaker 2: heard a lot of people say, and it's true, this

954
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 2: is not your grandfather's Democrat party. No it isn't. It

955
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 2: isn't your father's Democrat party, because this really isn't about Democrats.

956
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Speaker 2: It's about socialists. And I don't care you can call

957
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 2: it democratic socialism. That's an oxy moron being promoted by morons,

958
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:44,800
Speaker 2: come to think of it. But nothing, nothing shows how

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00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 2: this works in practice. Then to have the I guess

960
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Speaker 2: it's the first Lady of New York wearing seven hundred

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Speaker 2: dollars footwear. And as the swell kids all get together

962
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Speaker 2: for the rally and the swearing in and all of this,

963
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:09,920
Speaker 2: that's by invitation. Only the unwashed masses are allowed to

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Speaker 2: gather in a park to watch on big screens. So

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Speaker 2: everybody was invited to show up, but they didn't have

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Speaker 2: proper restroom facilities or food. So yes, that's exactly what

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Speaker 2: socialism is like. This is what you voted for. You

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Speaker 2: people who have not yet left New York, and I

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00:56:30,520 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 2: try not to make too much of little things like

970
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 2: this individual situations, because most of us are out working

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Speaker 2: every day. We're out in the heartland of the country.

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Speaker 2: We're the ones who are making it happen. So who

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Speaker 2: the mayor of New York is or isn't probably doesn't

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Speaker 2: make a lot of difference to our daily lives. But

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Speaker 2: it's an image, it's a symbol if in fact, that

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Speaker 2: is the thing financial capital of the world has been.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of folks who are coming up

978
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 2: with alternate currencies and a lot of nations trying to

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Speaker 2: come up with their own standards so that we don't

980
00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 2: have to use the dollar as the base. To have

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Speaker 2: the financial center of the world led by someone who

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Speaker 2: does not believe in capitalism, the warmth of collectivism, or

983
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:32,439
Speaker 2: there's a phrase. I'm just I don't think that speaks well.

984
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Speaker 2: And again, what can one guy do to screw things up? Well,

985
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 2: when you hate Jews, when you hate capitalism, when you

986
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 2: want to drag down the government, they could do a lot.

987
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Speaker 2: So it bears watching. And if you're in an area

988
00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:56,960
Speaker 2: that's thinking, oh, that's kind of where the cool kids

989
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 2: are hanging out. Look deeper. Do not let it happened.

990
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 2: Don't let this happen to you. Nine oh one two

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Speaker 2: six oh five, nine two six. Your calls on the

992
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 2: other side of the break. Jeff Stein in for Todd.

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Speaker 2: This is the Todd Starn Show. Welcome back to the

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Speaker 2: Liberty University Studio and this open line Friday edition of

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Speaker 2: the Todd Starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in for Todd.

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Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six oh five, nine two six.

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Speaker 2: That is the number to call to join the Coast

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Speaker 2: to coast conversation, and we'll take your calls. We've reserved

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Speaker 2: time the rest of this hour. Coming up. At the

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Speaker 2: top of the next hour, return guest to the program.

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Speaker 2: National news analyst and attorney doctor Wendy Patrick will talk

1002
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 2: about some of the new laws that have gone into

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Speaker 2: effect for twenty twenty six your tax dollars at work.

1004
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Speaker 2: We'll have that conversation in about thirty minutes or so.

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Speaker 2: So you're familiar with the folks at Real Clear Politics Now.

1006
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 2: They made their name over time by creating poll of polls.

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Speaker 2: In essence, they would find a variety of polls taken

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Speaker 2: on similar topics and then merge the results so that

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Speaker 2: rather than one outlier poll here on a high end,

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00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 2: one outlier poll there on the low end. This gave

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00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 2: you sort of the average of how people felt on

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Speaker 2: various issues. And they've done pretty well and expanded the

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00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 2: services that they offer. But that's how it started. Real

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00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 2: Clear Politics was an essence, a poll of polls on

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Speaker 2: a certain issue, and they've put together an end of

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Speaker 2: the year report and I want to share some of

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Speaker 2: the data because it is of interest. Now, a couple

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00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 2: of caveats for you. We all know that polling underrepresents

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00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 2: Trump supporters. We've known this ever since he came down

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Speaker 2: the Golden escalator. That having been said, these are still

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Speaker 2: pretty interesting numbers. So if you assume that these supposedly

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Speaker 2: mainstream polls come out this way, it's not bad. And

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Speaker 2: if you factor in the idea that Trump underperforms in

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Speaker 2: polls because people either don't want to participate or there's

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Speaker 2: bias or whatever, it's not too bad. Headed into twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six, so Real Clear Politics notes that President Trump

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Speaker 2: ended the year with an approval rating, this aggregate approval

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Speaker 2: rating of forty three point four percent. Trafalgar and others

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Speaker 2: have it higher. They're pretty trustworthy. I would say, but

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Speaker 2: let's just play this out. The average approval rating was

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Speaker 2: forty three point four percent at the end of the year. Now, yes,

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Speaker 2: that's down seven percent, seven points from the beginning of

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Speaker 2: the year, which was in the shadow of a major election.

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01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 2: All right, so hard to make maintain that level. But

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Speaker 2: what's interesting is that after year one of this term,

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Speaker 2: mister Trump is more popular than he was after the

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Speaker 2: first year of his first term. So you hear all

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Speaker 2: of the people who supposedly know stuff saying, oh, the

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Speaker 2: president's approval rating is down seven points from the beginning

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Speaker 2: of the year. Yeah, but he's more popular now than

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01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 2: at this same point in twenty seventeen by about four points.

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Speaker 2: So that's a good sign going into twenty twenty six

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Speaker 2: in terms of getting things done. By the way, in

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Speaker 2: historical terms, mister Trump did just as well in this

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01:01:43,240 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 2: second term first year of his second term as his predecessors.

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Speaker 2: In fact, the Trump approval rating during the last six

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Speaker 2: months of the year was better than both Barack Obama's

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Speaker 2: and George W. Bush's during the same point in their

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Speaker 2: respective presidencies. In other words, those who say, well, Trump's

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Speaker 2: really dropped, take a look at what happened to Obama

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Speaker 2: in his second term in terms of popularity. Take a

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Speaker 2: look at what happened to w in terms of popularity

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Speaker 2: in his second term. Trump's scoring higher. Trump is more popular.

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Speaker 2: Now I've got a little more on this, but this

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Speaker 2: is the part where you pull out your highlighter and

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Speaker 2: note for those members of Congress who don't have the

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Speaker 2: strength to enact the president's agenda, he's the popular one. Now.

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Speaker 2: We'll come back to that in a moment. All right,

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Speaker 2: So Trump still more popular than his predecessors, more popular

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Speaker 2: at this point in this term than he was in

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Speaker 2: his first term. At the beginning of twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: just one year ago, only twenty six point seven percent

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Speaker 2: of Americans said the country was headed in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: That's the legacy of the auto pen. That's the legacy

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Speaker 2: of Joe Biden. Only twenty six point seven percent of

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Speaker 2: Americans said the country was headed in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: As the year began, sixty one point nine percent said

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Speaker 2: we were on the wrong track. Now, when you do

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Speaker 2: the math on those, that's a net spread, and the

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Speaker 2: net negative was thirty five point two. In other words,

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Speaker 2: thirty five point two percent more said we were on

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Speaker 2: the wrong track than the right track. Well, by the

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Speaker 2: end of the year, that deficit had been cut in half.

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Speaker 2: In a year with a record long government shut down

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Speaker 2: there was a big improvement in the number of Americans

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Speaker 2: who said were on the right track again. Thirty seven

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Speaker 2: and a half percent of us now say the country's

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Speaker 2: headed in the right track. Only fifty five point six

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Speaker 2: percent say we're on the wrong track. Greatly improved in

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Speaker 2: less than one year. And who is the architect of that.

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Speaker 2: It's the guy in the White House. And you know that,

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Speaker 2: especially because the numbers with regard to disapproval for Congress

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Speaker 2: did not change. Congress was not well thought of when

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Speaker 2: the year started, and they're still not well thought of.

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Speaker 2: It's within the margin of error, barely twenty two percent

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Speaker 2: of Americans' approof of the job Congress is doing only

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Speaker 2: twenty two percent. More than two thirds sixty eight percent

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Speaker 2: disapprove of the House and Senate. So who's the popular guy,

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Speaker 2: Who's the one that Americans want to support? And who

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Speaker 2: do we not trust at all? You've got a popular

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Speaker 2: president number one. Congress is just as unpopular as ever.

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Speaker 2: No change, So they've done nothing to distinguish themselves and

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Speaker 2: therefore nothing to get credit for this much larger number

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Speaker 2: of people who say we're on the right path now

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Speaker 2: as opposed to a year ago. Now, we always hear

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Speaker 2: that in a mid term election, the party who has

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Speaker 2: the White House, they lose a bunch of seats. That's

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Speaker 2: just tradition, and in fact, in the first Trump administration

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Speaker 2: the loss was much less than was historically the case.

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Speaker 2: But given how small these margins are, these elections are vital.

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Speaker 2: They're very, very important. The GOP is losing ground on

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Speaker 2: what's known as the generic ballot. Now what's the generic ballot? Friends, Well,

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Speaker 2: this is where you say in a poll question, if

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Speaker 2: the election were held today, would you prefer to vote

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Speaker 2: for a Republican or a Democrat? No names, not talking

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Speaker 2: about putting names next to party affiliation, just general feeling

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Speaker 2: about the party, because you start putting names next to

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Speaker 2: these things, and it's very different, right, for the same

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Speaker 2: reason that people in these polls say that they hate Congress,

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Speaker 2: but they like their person. They like the person they

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Speaker 2: voted for, So the individuals when names are attached, are

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Speaker 2: always higher, all right, But this is the generic ballot

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Speaker 2: When the year began, right after the big Trump victory,

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Speaker 2: right after a majority in both chambers given to the Republicans,

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Speaker 2: the GOP had a lead over Democrats and a generic ballot. Well, again,

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Speaker 2: it makes sense people had just voted and done this.

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Speaker 2: So at the beginning of twenty twenty five, i've Republicans

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Speaker 2: had a one and a half percentage point lead over

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Speaker 2: Democrats in this who would you vote for a Republican

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Speaker 2: or a Democrat generic question. At the end of the year.

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Speaker 2: Where we are right now, the Democrats hold an advantage

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Speaker 2: of three point four percent, So that's a five and

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Speaker 2: a half percentage point swing. That's not good trending. However,

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Speaker 2: it is much smaller a shift than we have seen

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Speaker 2: in the past. After the first year of President Trump's

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Speaker 2: first term, Democrats held the lead in this generic ballot

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Speaker 2: twelve point nine percent. They barely have the lead now,

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Speaker 2: So again the trending is not what you would like.

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Speaker 2: But because of the Trump agenda, the party is in

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Speaker 2: a much better position going into this midterm election than

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Speaker 2: was the case in twenty eighteen. This is the wake

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Speaker 2: up call for congressional Republicans. Mister Trump is not on

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Speaker 2: the ballot by name. There are a lot of folks

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Speaker 2: who support him but don't support the whole party. Trumpekins,

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Speaker 2: if you will. Democrats said the same thing when Obama

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Speaker 2: was around. His coattails were not at all long, and

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Speaker 2: I called those voters obamacrats. So we have trumpekins, folks

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Speaker 2: who vote for Trump, and they will vote for other

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Speaker 2: Republicans for Congress and arguably up and down the line.

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Speaker 2: But let's just stick with Congress. If those people are

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Speaker 2: doing the things to advance the Trump agenda, it's not

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Speaker 2: happening enough from Congress. You can tell me about the

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Speaker 2: Democrats being obstructionists all you want. You can tell tell

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Speaker 2: me about how hard it is to get anything done

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Speaker 2: with a very slim majority. Tell me that all you want,

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Speaker 2: I get it. But I need to see some action,

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Speaker 2: need some productivity here. I need you to enact his

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Speaker 2: agenda because he's the popular one. He's the one that

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Speaker 2: Americans have said they want to support. So the key

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Speaker 2: to Republicans holding on to the majority in the House

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Speaker 2: and the Senate is to follow the Trump agenda, and

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Speaker 2: not just with lip service, with real tangible action. As

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Speaker 2: we talked about earlier. First, do your own job and

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Speaker 2: pass a darn budget while you're at to pass a

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Speaker 2: multi year farm bill that's only two years behind schedule,

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Speaker 2: and that does not just impact farmers. Most of the

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Speaker 2: spending in the farm bill goes to nutrition broadly, so

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Speaker 2: it's a misnomer to even call it a farm bill.

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Speaker 2: But the bottom line is, if you want to eat,

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Speaker 2: and I like to eat, but if you want to eat, better,

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Speaker 2: get a farm bill passed, get your budget passed, do

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Speaker 2: your job, Congress. And while you're at it, then how

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Speaker 2: about you put some of these tariffs into law. How

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Speaker 2: bout you put some of these executive orders into law.

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Speaker 2: You just saw the Mayor of New York take the

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Speaker 2: he did was rescind all of Mayor Adams's executive orders.

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Speaker 2: And he was a Democrat. So when the next person

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Speaker 2: locker rooms and all other issues like this. You had

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Speaker 2: I'll forgive your transgressions in twenty twenty five. Come back on.

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Speaker 2: I think it's Tuesday. I'm not even sure they're back Monday.

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Speaker 2: But in any case, when you come back, get to work.

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Speaker 2: Get to work for the American people and the agenda

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Speaker 2: with that. Some of the formerly mainstream media are much

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Speaker 2: is Nick Shirley has on the YouTube clip and everything else,

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Speaker 2: you would think some of the traditional news outlets might investigate. So,

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Speaker 2: That's not what you're seeing from some of the public

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Speaker 2: broadcasters up there. Their stories are entitled who is Nick Shirley?

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Speaker 2: What doesn't matter to a very large degree, because it

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Speaker 2: trying to deter people like mister Shirley from telling the truth.

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Speaker 2: That's why he's now the subject of threats and family

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Speaker 2: it interesting that those in the formerly mainstream media, when

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Speaker 2: more in the next hour. Liberty University Studios the location

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Speaker 2: in for Todd. Thanks for being along in the Todd

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Speaker 1: From the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's America's

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Speaker 2: starting in the next segment. But I want to start

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Speaker 2: this hour by going directly to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker

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Speaker 2: line and welcome a return guest to the program. She's

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Speaker 2: nationally known news analyst, career prosecutor, and author Wendy Patrick.

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Speaker 2: Her most recent book is entitled Why Bad Looks Good,

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Speaker 2: Biblical Wisdom to make smart choices in life, love and friendship.

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Speaker 2: You get it wherever you get good books these days,

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Speaker 2: Doctor Patrick. Happy New Year, and thanks for taking the time.

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Speaker 8: Happy New Year to be JIP. It's always a pleasure

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Speaker 8: to join you.

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Speaker 2: I this is an occupational hazard that you and I have.

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Speaker 2: I am an attorney, you are an attorney, and we

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Speaker 2: also comment on what's going on in the world. And

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Speaker 2: so at the start of every year there are new

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Speaker 2: laws that are passed, and we tend to look at

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Speaker 2: this as a state by state thing, and some of

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Speaker 2: these make sense. In my state of Iowa, we now

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Speaker 2: have a hands free law and I'm going to have

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Speaker 2: to really get used to when driving. There are lists

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Speaker 2: of some of these interesting, shall we say, laws, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they're trends or if they're just experiments.

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Speaker 2: But of the ones that you've taken a look at,

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Speaker 2: what jumps out at you, there are a couple that

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Speaker 2: have come to my attention. But what jumps out to

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Speaker 2: you is something interesting.

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Speaker 8: To note, you know, Jeff, What jumps out to me

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Speaker 8: every year is the reality that the laws really follow

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Speaker 8: the social trajectory of the nation. What do I mean

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Speaker 8: by that artificial intelligence? We are talking about the way

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Speaker 8: in which that is impacting our day to day life.

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Speaker 8: So naturally, I was not surprised that different states are

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Speaker 8: attempting to decide how to regulate something that is almost unregulatable.

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Speaker 8: They seem to be focusing on transparency, making sure that

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Speaker 8: if companies are using artificial intelligence, that they they are

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Speaker 8: relaying that to the customer, and if they are avoiding

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Speaker 8: manipulation you know, our AI is used in writing pleage reports,

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Speaker 8: in doing Google searches, in automating the way in which

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Speaker 8: we were sent to a representative. You know, we bell

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Speaker 8: a number nowadays and we just keep saying representative. But

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Speaker 8: all of these types of laws like that seem to

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Speaker 8: be geared to what consumers are important. I'll give you

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Speaker 8: another couple.

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Speaker 4: There's all kinds.

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Speaker 8: Of laws about animals and how we keep registries, for example,

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Speaker 8: the same way we do sex defenders domestic abusers. There

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Speaker 8: are some animal abuse registries now and again that reflects

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Speaker 8: the reality that we have the ability to keep lists

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Speaker 8: of people that might be dangerous for certain reasons, and

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Speaker 8: as long as we balance those privacy concerns and in

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Speaker 8: a fashion that is legal, we are allowed to have

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Speaker 8: registries like that. And I suppose the third one I'll

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Speaker 8: say that's really important is we're always looking at traffic

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Speaker 8: and traffic safety. When we say think about things like

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Speaker 8: self driving cars, when we think about food delivery services,

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Speaker 8: the ways in which transportation has evolved, even over the

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Speaker 8: last five years, there are always lots of laws across

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Speaker 8: the nation that try to figure out how can we

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Speaker 8: keep both pedestrians and drivers safer. So, for example, in

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Speaker 8: my state, the Department of Transportation is allowed to lower

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Speaker 8: that's a first for lots of years, lower the speed

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Speaker 8: limits in areas where there's been a lot of accidents.

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Speaker 2: Those are all really interesting. And what I find is,

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Speaker 2: and this is a function of law. Law tries to

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Speaker 2: govern behavior, and often we're playing catch up. I don't

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Speaker 2: want to say always, but quite often we're playing ketchup.

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Speaker 2: And the technology in AI rome is one of these.

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Speaker 2: Because this thing just shot out of a cannon and

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Speaker 2: we're now trying to put the genie back into the bottle.

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Speaker 2: It's really hard to do that, especially with young people,

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Speaker 2: isn't it.

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Speaker 8: Well, we're trying to keep the transparent bottle.

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Speaker 7: AI is.

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Speaker 8: Nobody can deny that we use it every day in

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Speaker 8: some form. But when you talk about these large language

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Speaker 8: models and generative AI like a lot of people don't

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Speaker 8: even know what those things mean. So the bottom line

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Speaker 8: with things like AI, you have to make sure that when,

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Speaker 8: not if, when you use it as a course of

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Speaker 8: your business, people know how you use it and where

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Speaker 8: you're getting the data, because you don't want to completely

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Speaker 8: biased data because somebody is programming it. You know, for example,

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Speaker 8: to only search a small subset of information that had

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Speaker 8: some sort of a bias or a bent, those kinds

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Speaker 8: of things. But you know, you make a good point

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Speaker 8: as to put the genie back in the bottle. I'll

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Speaker 8: tell you in other places. But genie's clearly out of

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Speaker 8: the bottle is when it comes to social media, and

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Speaker 8: we really want to regulate the way students are allowed

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Speaker 8: to use that during class. So we call this the

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Speaker 8: bell to bell ban in a lot of jurisdictions like California,

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Speaker 8: where schools have been authorized to come up with policies

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Speaker 8: and procedures to either ban or limits cell phone use

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Speaker 8: during the time that school is in sessions. Now, Jack,

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Speaker 8: if you and I had been talking about this five

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Speaker 8: years ago, as no doubt we were on one of

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Speaker 8: your programs, it would have been a very different climate

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Speaker 8: in terms of why parents want children to have cell

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Speaker 8: phones nowadays, with so many school shootings and both lines,

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Speaker 8: they want to be able to get a hold of

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Speaker 8: their precious young ones right away. They don't have to

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Speaker 8: go through school administration to try to see if their

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Speaker 8: daughter or son is safe in middle school. They want

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Speaker 8: to be able to get their son or daughter on

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Speaker 8: the line imminently, So that complicates things with that. When

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Speaker 8: you talk about schools banning something, they're going to have

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Speaker 8: to perhaps find a middle ground where maybe you know,

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Speaker 8: the cell phones have to be under the seat, or

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Speaker 8: they have to be awful whatever it is to be

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Speaker 8: able to allow parents that kind of access.

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Speaker 4: That's just one idea out there.

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Speaker 8: It isn't a specific law yet, but schools do have

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Speaker 8: the discretion to think outside the box on something like that.

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Speaker 2: That's one of the things. We've got a similar situation

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Speaker 2: in my state where we have the phones are locked

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Speaker 2: in boxes in certain school districts. You know, you deposit

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Speaker 2: your phone in the morning, you come get it as

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Speaker 2: you're leaving the day. And the biggest problem, I mean,

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Speaker 2: a lot of the kids like it because it takes

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Speaker 2: away the pressure that they feel. They don't get the

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Speaker 2: buzz or hear a tone of a notification, and so

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Speaker 2: truly it becomes out of side, out of mind. It's

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Speaker 2: the parents who want to keep tabs on the kids

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Speaker 2: that are more of a problem. But as you noted,

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Speaker 2: and as we saw in the Brown University situation, that's

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Speaker 2: how folks got a lot of good information pretty quickly,

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Speaker 2: as there was an active situation.

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Speaker 7: That's true.

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Speaker 8: And you know, the thing about cell phone dance is

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Speaker 8: not only are they unworkable, but I'll give you another

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Speaker 8: educational related I suppose downside to saying the kids can't

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Speaker 8: use them, it's how.

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Speaker 2: Do you enforce that.

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Speaker 8: You really want to have the opportunity for students and

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Speaker 8: teachers to form a bond. That's how teachers are unnoticed

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Speaker 8: when a student is behating unusually, or they seem to

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Speaker 8: be withdrawn, they're doodling and drawing guns on their notepad.

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Speaker 8: You know, all these things that teachers notice to really

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Speaker 8: jeopardize the strength of that relationship by some level of suspicion, checking,

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Speaker 8: monitoring and baiting tech, you know, searching backpack, all the

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Speaker 8: ways in which sometimes students have because legally they have

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Speaker 8: a lesson not not they still have some but they

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Speaker 8: have a lesser expectation of privacy when schools and sessions.

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Speaker 8: But to try to, you know, enforce things that you

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Speaker 8: already know both parents and students want to do, it's

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Speaker 8: just tough. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, because

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Speaker 8: I like your idea of out of side, out of mind,

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Speaker 8: But then how do you get to the phones if

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Speaker 8: God forbid, there is a shooter or the school goes

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Speaker 8: on lockdown. Are the phones going to be in the

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Speaker 8: classroom where the students so are they some other buildings

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Speaker 8: somewhere where they can't be accessed anyway. You know, it's

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Speaker 8: a terrible thing that we already have to talk about

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Speaker 8: these things much less think about active shooter drills. Like

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Speaker 8: schools already some of them have or metal detectors. But

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Speaker 8: these are some of the things in which policies have

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Speaker 8: to be worked out to where maybe there's a way

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Speaker 8: that they follow the students around as they go to

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Speaker 8: different classes, but they're kept by the teacher as long

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Speaker 8: as they're close enough to be able to be accessible.

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Speaker 8: If that classroom has to lock its doores, maybe that's

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Speaker 8: where the middle ground is.

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Speaker 2: Attorney and national news analyst doctor Wendy Patrick joining us

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Speaker 2: on the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line on the Todd Starn Show.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Stein filling in for Todd today. She's on the

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Speaker 2: Twitter x machine at Wendy Patrick PhD. Wendypatrickphd dot com

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Speaker 2: is the website. There are a lot of laws that

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Speaker 2: are well meaning, so, for example, a number of states

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Speaker 2: have put some of these snap restrictions on junk food.

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Speaker 2: In other words, if you're getting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program,

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Speaker 2: you get the card, you're not supposed to use it

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Speaker 2: for soda, pop and candy and all of these things.

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Speaker 2: Here's the downside, as I understand it. You can go

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Speaker 2: across the river in my case it's from Iowao to Illinois.

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Speaker 2: You can go to the adjacent state and use the

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Speaker 2: card on whatever you want. And so this you can

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Speaker 2: only regulate between the borders. So I understand that these

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Speaker 2: cards can be used anywhere, and so now you've got

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Speaker 2: all manner of different traffic patterns. You can only enforce

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Speaker 2: the behavior or try to model the behavior or affect

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Speaker 2: the behavior so far.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, Jeff, you and I talked about this

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Speaker 8: when marijuana was being legalized in different states and how

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Speaker 8: easy it was to just go to a state where

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Speaker 8: it's legal, and then, of course then the complication is

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Speaker 8: how do you been.

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Speaker 4: Bring it back into your state?

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Speaker 8: Do you just smoke it there and then drive home?

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's the same thing when you think about

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Speaker 8: the ways in which different states are adopting different ways

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Speaker 8: of for example of you know, exercising the SNAP benefit, right,

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Speaker 8: So we've long known that it's probably disfavored to have

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Speaker 8: a car full of sodopop and candy and you know,

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Speaker 8: and any and obviously you can't use it on things

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Speaker 8: like alcohol and cigarettes. But there are some states where

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Speaker 8: they I don't want to say they turn the other way,

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Speaker 8: but they just really don't engage in that sort of

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Speaker 8: nutritional analysis when they look at what you buy, you know,

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Speaker 8: because we want to like only shop.

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Speaker 3: The Trader Joe's and never get anything with sugar in it.

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Speaker 8: But where do you draw a line? So, yes, you

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Speaker 8: have a number of states that have received waivers to

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Speaker 8: ban the purchase of soda, candy, and here's the kicker

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Speaker 8: other unhealthy items. Who decides what that is? I mean,

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Speaker 8: if you and I tried to hammer this out of

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Speaker 8: you and I could have a conversation about what we

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Speaker 8: do or don't think is healthy and what research sayes what.

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Speaker 8: But it's really tough, and it would almost require somebody

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Speaker 8: to really go out of their way buy more gas

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Speaker 8: as extensive that is, to try to circumvent some of

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Speaker 8: these rules.

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Speaker 3: But I can tell you.

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Speaker 8: That suppose the heart's in the right place, is you

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Speaker 8: want to make sure that people actually use those benefits

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Speaker 8: for something that is going to be food items, not

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Speaker 8: a bagful of chemicals. That's the counter argument.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't look at my grocery card if you want

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Speaker 2: healthy food. Let's close with this one. And this is

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Speaker 2: something that those of us in radio and TV have

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01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:03,080
Speaker 2: heard complaints about from viewers and listeners for years. And

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01:29:03,120 --> 01:29:06,439
Speaker 2: it's a lie in your state of California. And this

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01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:08,799
Speaker 2: will actually go into effect later this year, but video

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01:29:08,840 --> 01:29:12,439
Speaker 2: streaming services in California are banned from making the volume

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01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:16,599
Speaker 2: of commercials louder than the program. Well, good luck. We've

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01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:19,000
Speaker 2: been fighting that battle here for years and a lot

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01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:22,040
Speaker 2: of it is just the impression of the audience. But

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01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:26,200
Speaker 2: that's an important point. I can show you the meters

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01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:28,479
Speaker 2: and show you that it's not necessarily louder. It's the

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01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:32,879
Speaker 2: type of message, but it affects the audience.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 8: It's interesting you say that, Jeff, because we've complained about that.

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01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:40,880
Speaker 8: I feel like for decades that you know, commercial comes

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01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:44,040
Speaker 8: on and it just blares. But you know, commercials often

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01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:45,040
Speaker 8: interrupt very.

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01:29:44,960 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 7: Low key sort of peaceful.

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01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:49,920
Speaker 8: Screen savers or the kinds of sort of ambiance we have,

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01:29:50,120 --> 01:29:52,360
Speaker 8: or the kinds of shows that we watch that at

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01:29:52,360 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 8: our age at least are not usually you know, the

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01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:59,120
Speaker 8: heavy metal, hard rock, the kinds of really loud things

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01:29:59,120 --> 01:30:01,599
Speaker 8: that come on, and you know, you say it's the perception.

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01:30:01,880 --> 01:30:04,320
Speaker 8: Even if that's true, I want to say, it's the

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01:30:04,360 --> 01:30:07,440
Speaker 8: perception of like ninety five people who like just scramble

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01:30:07,560 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 8: for the remote to try to mute a commercial. So

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01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:12,040
Speaker 8: it's interesting, it's in fact, there.

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01:30:12,080 --> 01:30:13,759
Speaker 7: Isn't that decible difference.

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Speaker 8: This law probably wasn't needed, but I can tell you

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01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:19,960
Speaker 8: it's amazing how many people in the last couple of

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01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 8: days that I've been discussing the new laws have wanted

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01:30:22,600 --> 01:30:24,479
Speaker 8: to talk about this one. And Jeffrey, before we go,

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01:30:24,560 --> 01:30:26,000
Speaker 8: let me just tell you the other one people want

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01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:29,320
Speaker 8: to talk about in California is the one that is

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01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:34,040
Speaker 8: going to be requiring tortillas to be healthier, because at

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01:30:34,160 --> 01:30:36,280
Speaker 8: least you know where I live in San Diego, that

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01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:39,559
Speaker 8: is a staple of our diet is tortillas. Now you

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01:30:39,600 --> 01:30:42,120
Speaker 8: have to have points set a milligram pasolic acid per

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01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 8: pound of cornflower because it is good for newborns and

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01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:48,040
Speaker 8: it is good for even the children in utero. What

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01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:50,360
Speaker 8: do you think about that? Looking out for the rights

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01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:52,680
Speaker 8: of the unborn here in California.

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01:30:53,680 --> 01:30:55,160
Speaker 2: Well, at least in that respect.

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Speaker 8: Goodness, you never come back to that, at least in

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01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:00,000
Speaker 8: that respect.

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01:31:00,400 --> 01:31:00,759
Speaker 3: Amen.

1544
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for putting it on the tea for me. Wendy.

1545
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:07,400
Speaker 2: It is always a privilege. And I swear I see

1546
01:31:07,439 --> 01:31:10,400
Speaker 2: you on News Nation, Newsmax, Fox News. The only place

1547
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:12,720
Speaker 2: I don't see is on the shopping channel, but you

1548
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 2: could with the book. So I always find your I

1549
01:31:17,880 --> 01:31:20,960
Speaker 2: always find your insight to be so helpful. Happy New Year,

1550
01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:22,320
Speaker 2: and thanks for taking time today.

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01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:24,599
Speaker 8: Happy Jeff, Thank you so much.

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01:31:25,160 --> 01:31:29,479
Speaker 2: Wendypatrickphd dot com, the website and again her most recent book,

1553
01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 2: Why Bad Looks Good and you get it wherever you

1554
01:31:32,360 --> 01:31:34,840
Speaker 2: get your good books and doctor Wendy Patrick joined us

1555
01:31:34,840 --> 01:31:37,720
Speaker 2: on the Patriot Mobile news Maker Line. Kathy, I think

1556
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:39,720
Speaker 2: you're still on the line. Form more again. Hold on,

1557
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:41,719
Speaker 2: We'll get through this break and then take your call

1558
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:44,759
Speaker 2: as we continue on this Friday edition of The Todd

1559
01:31:44,800 --> 01:31:55,120
Speaker 2: Starn Show, and as we continue from the Liberty University

1560
01:31:55,160 --> 01:31:58,280
Speaker 2: Studio on the Todd Starn Show Open Line Friday nine

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01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:01,040
Speaker 2: O one two six oh five N two six events.

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01:32:01,080 --> 01:32:04,400
Speaker 2: The number Kathy used to call in from Salem more Again, Kathy,

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01:32:04,439 --> 01:32:06,639
Speaker 2: thanks for holding on Jeff stein In for Todd. What's

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01:32:06,640 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 2: on your mind today?

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01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:16,080
Speaker 4: I guess I wanted to talk about the Congress. I've

1566
01:32:16,200 --> 01:32:22,000
Speaker 4: been spreading over this for the past year. Yeah, why

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01:32:22,040 --> 01:32:27,000
Speaker 4: don't they codify these eos?

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01:32:27,320 --> 01:32:28,360
Speaker 2: Yeah?

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01:32:28,960 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 4: If they don't, I mean, so, what I was calling

1570
01:32:32,360 --> 01:32:34,800
Speaker 4: for is I wanted to know your opinion. Are you

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01:32:34,920 --> 01:32:36,439
Speaker 4: able to say what you think?

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01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:41,400
Speaker 2: The reason is, Well, they're going to tell you that

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01:32:41,520 --> 01:32:45,000
Speaker 2: it's because they can't get the votes, and so there

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01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:47,479
Speaker 2: are other things that they can that they need to

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01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:49,320
Speaker 2: take care of. In other words, while the President already

1576
01:32:49,360 --> 01:32:51,840
Speaker 2: took care of this and so we can focus on

1577
01:32:51,880 --> 01:32:55,280
Speaker 2: other things. Well, my problem, Kathy, is they're not focusing

1578
01:32:55,320 --> 01:32:59,000
Speaker 2: on the other things. I don't see leadership coming from

1579
01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:02,000
Speaker 2: out there. Now. I've never served in Congress. I have

1580
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 2: no idea. I'm sure it's very difficult, but I don't

1581
01:33:04,439 --> 01:33:07,800
Speaker 2: even see the attempt and that's really discouraging. What do

1582
01:33:07,840 --> 01:33:09,559
Speaker 2: you think? How do you feel about it all?

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01:33:12,080 --> 01:33:15,160
Speaker 4: I'm actually I hate to say, but I'm a little

1584
01:33:15,160 --> 01:33:21,280
Speaker 4: bit ignorant about how it operates. Do I don't know?

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01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:23,080
Speaker 3: I don't know.

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01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:26,880
Speaker 2: Well, we know that the executive orders can be overturned

1587
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:30,080
Speaker 2: by the next person to come in. And so you

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01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:33,160
Speaker 2: have to pass some of these things as laws if

1589
01:33:33,200 --> 01:33:36,360
Speaker 2: you want the policy to be changed. But have you

1590
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:40,280
Speaker 2: contacted your member of Congress's office to find out why

1591
01:33:40,280 --> 01:33:43,759
Speaker 2: they're not doing more to if they say they support

1592
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:47,200
Speaker 2: the president's agenda, to actually do more than talk about it.

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Speaker 4: Do you think it would help when my senator is

1594
01:33:51,400 --> 01:33:52,440
Speaker 4: Ron Leiden.

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01:33:53,520 --> 01:33:57,040
Speaker 2: Well, at the very least you have to try. This

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01:33:57,160 --> 01:33:59,519
Speaker 2: is my feeling. I understand, you know, when you're running

1597
01:33:59,600 --> 01:34:02,280
Speaker 2: your head against a brick wall, I get it. But

1598
01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:07,599
Speaker 2: my feeling is that you have to at least try

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01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:11,960
Speaker 2: and let them know, because then they can't just say, well,

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01:34:12,000 --> 01:34:18,560
Speaker 2: nobody said they cared about this, etc. It's the problem

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01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:21,840
Speaker 2: is when you elect a president who says this is

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01:34:21,880 --> 01:34:23,880
Speaker 2: what I want to do, you got to have team

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01:34:23,920 --> 01:34:27,240
Speaker 2: members to go along. And I'm just afraid that there

1604
01:34:27,280 --> 01:34:29,639
Speaker 2: aren't enough of the faithful in Congress right now.

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01:34:30,800 --> 01:34:34,360
Speaker 4: Can you imagine how quickly we would turn this thing

1606
01:34:34,400 --> 01:34:38,519
Speaker 4: around if everybody would just be on board with doing

1607
01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:44,080
Speaker 4: the right thing. It would go so fast it would.

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01:34:43,800 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 2: But here's the problem, and I hate to say it,

1609
01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:50,000
Speaker 2: but there are a lot of people with the r

1610
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:52,519
Speaker 2: by their name for Republicans who can't wait for Donald

1611
01:34:52,560 --> 01:34:56,040
Speaker 2: Trump to get out of the way because they are

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01:34:56,120 --> 01:34:59,680
Speaker 2: not true believers. They want to be part of that

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01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:02,360
Speaker 2: much the middle Again, Kathy, this was such a smart call.

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01:35:02,439 --> 01:35:05,439
Speaker 2: Thank you for taking the time to calling from Salem.

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01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:07,080
Speaker 2: We're up against the break at the bottom of the

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01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:09,519
Speaker 2: hour and I gotta stick to the clock. We'll talk

1617
01:35:09,560 --> 01:35:12,280
Speaker 2: a little more about this after this bottom of the

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01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:15,639
Speaker 2: hour break. Join in nine oh one two six oh five,

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01:35:15,800 --> 01:35:19,400
Speaker 2: nine two six from the Liberty University Studio. This is

1620
01:35:19,439 --> 01:35:34,200
Speaker 2: the Todd Starn Show. Welcome back to the Liberty University

1621
01:35:34,240 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 2: Studio and the Todd Starn Show. Jeff Stein filling in

1622
01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:40,799
Speaker 2: for Todd today. Thanks for being along open Line Friday.

1623
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:42,559
Speaker 2: Your calls the rest of the way at nine oh

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01:35:42,640 --> 01:35:45,840
Speaker 2: one two six oh five, nine two six. That's nine

1625
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:49,800
Speaker 2: oh one two, six oh five, nine two six. And

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01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:53,759
Speaker 2: in our last segment we heard from Kathy and Salem Morgan.

1627
01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 2: She wanted to know why we're having such a problem

1628
01:35:57,600 --> 01:36:03,360
Speaker 2: with members of Congress passing key points of the president's agenda,

1629
01:36:03,880 --> 01:36:09,320
Speaker 2: like codifying these executive orders all right here. It is

1630
01:36:10,160 --> 01:36:15,200
Speaker 2: the number one goal of any politician, any elected official,

1631
01:36:15,280 --> 01:36:18,719
Speaker 2: their number one goal is to get elected. Their number

1632
01:36:18,760 --> 01:36:24,679
Speaker 2: two goal is to get re elected. Somewhere in there

1633
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:27,719
Speaker 2: there might be oh, help the constituents, blah blah blah,

1634
01:36:27,760 --> 01:36:31,120
Speaker 2: but again, their number one goal as a private citizen

1635
01:36:31,200 --> 01:36:33,640
Speaker 2: is to get elected. Their number two goal is to

1636
01:36:33,760 --> 01:36:39,639
Speaker 2: get re elected. If they thought it was in their

1637
01:36:39,760 --> 01:36:46,040
Speaker 2: best political interest, then they would take action. But I

1638
01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:51,599
Speaker 2: don't think there are enough of them that truly believe

1639
01:36:52,200 --> 01:36:58,280
Speaker 2: in the Make America Great Again movement. And so instead

1640
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 2: of saying, mister Trump has signed all of these executive orders,

1641
01:37:03,640 --> 01:37:06,800
Speaker 2: we need to make sure the next person in, regardless

1642
01:37:06,800 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 2: of party affiliation, We've got to make sure that next

1643
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:12,320
Speaker 2: person in does not change it, does not revert back,

1644
01:37:12,400 --> 01:37:17,439
Speaker 2: does not walk back these things. We need to pass laws,

1645
01:37:18,720 --> 01:37:23,040
Speaker 2: but they don't do it. And I'm tired of hearing, well,

1646
01:37:23,080 --> 01:37:25,280
Speaker 2: we don't yet have the votes. I'm tired of hearing

1647
01:37:25,320 --> 01:37:28,240
Speaker 2: it's a small majority. I'm tired of hearing that the

1648
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:35,360
Speaker 2: Democrats are obstructionists. Grow a spine, introduce the bill. I'd

1649
01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:39,960
Speaker 2: like to see one Republican in Congress just say, you

1650
01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:44,200
Speaker 2: know what, It does not cost me anything to introduce

1651
01:37:44,240 --> 01:37:49,320
Speaker 2: a bill. Right, there's no filing fee, so how about

1652
01:37:49,520 --> 01:37:55,320
Speaker 2: we draft legislation to make Executive Order number one law,

1653
01:37:56,960 --> 01:38:00,840
Speaker 2: and then we'll draft legislation to make a Executive Order

1654
01:38:00,880 --> 01:38:06,200
Speaker 2: number two law. I'm fine if you pick them by

1655
01:38:06,200 --> 01:38:08,680
Speaker 2: what you think is most important. I'm fine if you

1656
01:38:08,720 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 2: do it numerically. I'm fine if you do it by

1657
01:38:11,800 --> 01:38:15,479
Speaker 2: oldest to newest, newest to oldest. I don't care. Just

1658
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:20,880
Speaker 2: do something. But instead all they are doing. And I

1659
01:38:20,920 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 2: said this earlier, and I firmly believe it because I'm

1660
01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:27,200
Speaker 2: seeing races in my area and all around the country.

1661
01:38:27,960 --> 01:38:30,880
Speaker 2: They're elbowing each other to get to the front of

1662
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:35,400
Speaker 2: a microphone to say I am the strongest supporter of

1663
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:42,000
Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Prove it. Tell me how well I endorsed

1664
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:46,320
Speaker 2: him early on. Okay, that's nice. What have you done lately?

1665
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:50,160
Speaker 2: What have you done when it counted? What are you

1666
01:38:50,320 --> 01:38:57,200
Speaker 2: doing to advance the agenda? And so my suspicion is

1667
01:38:57,240 --> 01:39:02,280
Speaker 2: they're just not enough of these folks who want to

1668
01:39:02,400 --> 01:39:08,080
Speaker 2: attach themselves to any of the president's substantive actions. And

1669
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:12,240
Speaker 2: it's almost a reverse if you will, I mean, you

1670
01:39:12,280 --> 01:39:15,360
Speaker 2: could say that you don't like how mister Trump does

1671
01:39:15,439 --> 01:39:18,960
Speaker 2: certain things, but you'll love his policies. Heard that from

1672
01:39:19,040 --> 01:39:22,439
Speaker 2: various voters. Yeah, you know, he's kind of brash, but

1673
01:39:22,800 --> 01:39:29,400
Speaker 2: we like the policies. This is stupidly the reverse where

1674
01:39:29,400 --> 01:39:32,080
Speaker 2: these people say I'm a great supporter, but then they

1675
01:39:32,080 --> 01:39:37,439
Speaker 2: don't do anything. Try doing something. No bill is ever

1676
01:39:37,479 --> 01:39:42,920
Speaker 2: going to get passed unless it's introduced. Okay, that's fundamental. Well,

1677
01:39:42,960 --> 01:39:45,799
Speaker 2: I don't know if the speaker would like it. Tough,

1678
01:39:47,560 --> 01:39:54,559
Speaker 2: don't care. I have heard for a decade. I have

1679
01:39:54,760 --> 01:40:00,479
Speaker 2: heard Republicans are going to repeal and replace Obamacare. Okay

1680
01:40:00,520 --> 01:40:08,160
Speaker 2: with what you're also smart with? What come up with something? Well,

1681
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:13,040
Speaker 2: we can't really agree on a plant. Try something. I

1682
01:40:13,080 --> 01:40:16,080
Speaker 2: think there are some good folks out there who are

1683
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:21,200
Speaker 2: really getting frustrated because that swamp is thick and deep.

1684
01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:26,880
Speaker 2: I just hope they don't lose the faith. And I

1685
01:40:26,920 --> 01:40:31,519
Speaker 2: think that's why you see so many people who are

1686
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:38,640
Speaker 2: leaving Washington and running for office in their home states,

1687
01:40:38,680 --> 01:40:41,599
Speaker 2: the thought that this place is a mess. I can't

1688
01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 2: do anything here, but I could get a lot of

1689
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:45,400
Speaker 2: work done at home. Well, the problem they're going to

1690
01:40:45,479 --> 01:40:47,720
Speaker 2: have is I, as a voter, I'm going to say,

1691
01:40:47,760 --> 01:40:50,759
Speaker 2: what have you done for me? You're a great supporter

1692
01:40:50,840 --> 01:40:54,960
Speaker 2: of mister Trump. Okay, tell me how, tell me what

1693
01:40:55,040 --> 01:40:57,760
Speaker 2: you did. Well, I've got a photo with him that

1694
01:40:57,760 --> 01:41:02,400
Speaker 2: I'm using in my campaign materials. Okay, and you'll have

1695
01:41:02,439 --> 01:41:06,240
Speaker 2: a photo with somebody else the next time. It's meaningless.

1696
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:12,960
Speaker 2: Let's see some action. And I understand again the concept

1697
01:41:14,760 --> 01:41:19,519
Speaker 2: that it's hard to get things done with a small

1698
01:41:19,560 --> 01:41:25,040
Speaker 2: majority and Democrats, and okay, fine, just try show me

1699
01:41:25,080 --> 01:41:29,000
Speaker 2: you're trying. Now, I remember there was a situation, because

1700
01:41:29,080 --> 01:41:31,640
Speaker 2: here's the thing. If you don't try, you're sure going

1701
01:41:31,680 --> 01:41:33,919
Speaker 2: to be left out in the cold. I remember a situation,

1702
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:37,120
Speaker 2: and it must have been, oh, I guess the summer

1703
01:41:37,160 --> 01:41:39,840
Speaker 2: of twenty eighteen. So we were going into the midterm

1704
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:45,800
Speaker 2: election of mister Trump's first year, and I was at

1705
01:41:45,840 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 2: an event. It was a fundraising event for an incumbent

1706
01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:55,360
Speaker 2: Republican member of Congress, and Paul Ryan was the Speaker

1707
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:57,800
Speaker 2: of the House, and he came by and said a

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01:41:57,800 --> 01:42:02,200
Speaker 2: few words to whip up the faithful. Now keep in

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Speaker 2: mind at that point, as is the case today anyway,

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01:42:06,160 --> 01:42:11,479
Speaker 2: as well, my state has two Republican US Senators. And

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01:42:11,520 --> 01:42:14,840
Speaker 2: so here's Paul Ryan talking about all of the laws

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01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:17,799
Speaker 2: that had passed by the House, all of the bills

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Speaker 2: that had been passed by the House that the Senate,

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Speaker 2: which was in Republican hands, was not taking up. And

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01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:28,360
Speaker 2: he literally said, don't blame House members. You know, if

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01:42:28,400 --> 01:42:31,160
Speaker 2: you're if you're upset about nothing getting done in Washington,

1717
01:42:31,200 --> 01:42:33,400
Speaker 2: we are too, but don't hold it against your incumbent

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01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:35,960
Speaker 2: congressman because he's a good guy and we just need

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01:42:36,000 --> 01:42:39,720
Speaker 2: more more Republican senators to tip the balance. And well,

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Speaker 2: I guess you guys have done the best you can

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01:42:41,520 --> 01:42:44,639
Speaker 2: by voting for two but we uh, you know, don't

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01:42:44,640 --> 01:42:48,120
Speaker 2: don't blame us. We we've got all these bills standing

1723
01:42:48,160 --> 01:42:53,800
Speaker 2: on the the doorstep of the Senate. Well, again, what

1724
01:42:53,960 --> 01:42:58,160
Speaker 2: party's in charge. So if the best you've got is

1725
01:42:58,240 --> 01:43:01,160
Speaker 2: to say, yes, we're all of the same party, but

1726
01:43:01,560 --> 01:43:05,559
Speaker 2: we're not getting along, we're not all rowing in the

1727
01:43:05,600 --> 01:43:10,879
Speaker 2: same direction, that's not going to lead to electoral success,

1728
01:43:10,920 --> 01:43:14,400
Speaker 2: and it's sure not going to lead to success in governing.

1729
01:43:16,960 --> 01:43:21,800
Speaker 2: So my very deep fear is that you have a

1730
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 2: lot of people with an R by their name who

1731
01:43:25,080 --> 01:43:28,400
Speaker 2: are happy to say they support mister Trump if it

1732
01:43:28,479 --> 01:43:33,040
Speaker 2: helps them get reelected. But when you actually say what

1733
01:43:33,280 --> 01:43:42,280
Speaker 2: have you done? They're quiet because they want the benefit,

1734
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:47,000
Speaker 2: they don't want to have to work for it, and

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01:43:47,640 --> 01:43:51,720
Speaker 2: that is a truly missed opportunity. Now, before we do

1736
01:43:51,760 --> 01:43:57,320
Speaker 2: the break, let me point out the Democrats mindlessly go lockstep.

1737
01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:01,479
Speaker 2: And I don't like that either. I mean, I don't

1738
01:44:01,560 --> 01:44:06,280
Speaker 2: like this idea of lack of independent thought. So I'm

1739
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:10,000
Speaker 2: not suggesting that just because you have an R by

1740
01:44:10,040 --> 01:44:12,400
Speaker 2: your name, you have to always fall in line on

1741
01:44:12,560 --> 01:44:16,920
Speaker 2: every single issue, but be honest about it, and if

1742
01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:20,680
Speaker 2: you're not there to fully advance the president's agenda. And

1743
01:44:20,720 --> 01:44:24,840
Speaker 2: he is far more popular than any member of Congress,

1744
01:44:25,160 --> 01:44:29,559
Speaker 2: certainly as the aggregate. What did the recent aggregation of

1745
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:34,680
Speaker 2: poll show? Twenty two percent of Americans like Congress and

1746
01:44:34,720 --> 01:44:37,879
Speaker 2: it's closer to fifty percent for the president. You know, hello,

1747
01:44:38,040 --> 01:44:40,920
Speaker 2: guys and gals, get in line. You want to be

1748
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:45,040
Speaker 2: part of the winning team. But the fact that they're not,

1749
01:44:45,120 --> 01:44:51,880
Speaker 2: that there's this disconnect, that's what really concerns me to

1750
01:44:52,040 --> 01:44:56,960
Speaker 2: a very large degree. They have messed around and frittered

1751
01:44:57,080 --> 01:45:02,040
Speaker 2: away the first year of the presidency. Oh, you got

1752
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:07,000
Speaker 2: the reconciliation bill, big beautiful bill. Yeah, you're not going

1753
01:45:07,040 --> 01:45:09,439
Speaker 2: to get a lot of credit for that because you

1754
01:45:09,640 --> 01:45:13,559
Speaker 2: stopped income taxes from going up. Yes, that's true, you

1755
01:45:13,720 --> 01:45:15,960
Speaker 2: stop them from going up, But for most of us

1756
01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 2: it's just going to be the same. We're not going

1757
01:45:18,560 --> 01:45:21,519
Speaker 2: to see any change. So what have you done to

1758
01:45:21,600 --> 01:45:26,679
Speaker 2: move the agenda forward? You couldn't figure out a way

1759
01:45:27,439 --> 01:45:31,920
Speaker 2: to get your twelve appropriation bills through the House and

1760
01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:34,920
Speaker 2: make it the Senate's problem. I don't know where the

1761
01:45:34,920 --> 01:45:37,120
Speaker 2: biggest problem is. I used to think it was the House,

1762
01:45:37,120 --> 01:45:39,559
Speaker 2: but I've got no love for the Senate at the

1763
01:45:39,560 --> 01:45:42,840
Speaker 2: moment either. Isn't that terrible? As the new year, I'm

1764
01:45:42,840 --> 01:45:48,280
Speaker 2: supposed to be full of enthusiasm, supposed to feel real positive. Friends.

1765
01:45:48,360 --> 01:45:53,240
Speaker 2: What I'm positive about is if House and Senate doesn't

1766
01:45:53,280 --> 01:45:57,000
Speaker 2: get its act together, they are going to lose a

1767
01:45:57,040 --> 01:46:01,680
Speaker 2: golden opportunity to reclaim this nation because they've got a

1768
01:46:01,800 --> 01:46:06,559
Speaker 2: leader in the White House. And anybody listening who does

1769
01:46:06,600 --> 01:46:09,080
Speaker 2: not like what mister Trump is doing or what he

1770
01:46:09,160 --> 01:46:12,799
Speaker 2: stands for, you cannot say he is not a leader

1771
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:15,200
Speaker 2: and he is not trying to accomplish what he said

1772
01:46:15,240 --> 01:46:19,519
Speaker 2: he would do. The most ardent Democrats have to admit

1773
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:27,000
Speaker 2: that's a leader. He's pushing to get things done. Where's

1774
01:46:27,040 --> 01:46:32,559
Speaker 2: the help? Nine oh one two, six oh five, nine

1775
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Speaker 2: two six. One more segment of the program to start

1776
01:46:35,439 --> 01:46:37,920
Speaker 2: the new year from the Liberty University Studio. Love to

1777
01:46:37,920 --> 01:46:40,479
Speaker 2: hear from you. Nine oh one two six oh five,

1778
01:46:40,680 --> 01:46:43,080
Speaker 2: nine two six short break. Now back on the other

1779
01:46:43,160 --> 01:46:45,920
Speaker 2: side for one more segment on this open line Friday

1780
01:46:46,040 --> 01:46:50,120
Speaker 2: edition of The Todd Starns Todd Starns Show. Jeff Stein

1781
01:46:50,200 --> 01:46:52,439
Speaker 2: filling in for Todd and again we'll be back in

1782
01:46:52,439 --> 01:46:59,320
Speaker 2: a few moments on The starn Show. Welcome back to

1783
01:46:59,360 --> 01:47:02,320
Speaker 2: the Liberty University Studio and The Todd Starring Show. Jeff

1784
01:47:02,360 --> 01:47:05,000
Speaker 2: Stein filling in for Todd today. Nine oh one two

1785
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:07,920
Speaker 2: six oh five, nine two six. That's the number that

1786
01:47:08,000 --> 01:47:11,200
Speaker 2: Bonnie used to call in from Texas. Thanks so much.

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01:47:11,240 --> 01:47:13,519
Speaker 2: Happy new year, Bonnie. How are you well?

1788
01:47:13,600 --> 01:47:16,839
Speaker 7: Happy New Year to you. I think we're gonna be okay,

1789
01:47:18,479 --> 01:47:21,759
Speaker 7: but but the American patriots are just sick and tired

1790
01:47:22,439 --> 01:47:28,200
Speaker 7: of the government not doing anything. They're not doing anything.

1791
01:47:28,360 --> 01:47:32,120
Speaker 5: I mean, look at the Epstein situation, all.

1792
01:47:31,960 --> 01:47:35,600
Speaker 7: This redashious stuff and Pam Bonnie, it's they're saying that,

1793
01:47:35,960 --> 01:47:41,120
Speaker 7: you know, they got criminals incarcerations happening. Well, that didn't

1794
01:47:41,160 --> 01:47:44,720
Speaker 7: happen under her that was in twenty two, you know,

1795
01:47:44,880 --> 01:47:47,960
Speaker 7: and it's like we're being gaslighted every step of the way,

1796
01:47:48,760 --> 01:47:52,479
Speaker 7: and we're sick of it, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, one hundred percent. I mean that's why it's

1798
01:47:56,520 --> 01:47:58,240
Speaker 2: hard for me to talk about this stuff because I

1799
01:47:58,280 --> 01:48:01,479
Speaker 2: get all worked up about it and screws screws around

1800
01:48:01,520 --> 01:48:03,799
Speaker 2: with my blood pressure. But what can we do about it? Bonnie?

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01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:04,759
Speaker 2: I mean, does the president?

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01:48:06,800 --> 01:48:09,840
Speaker 7: Honestly, I think it's their goal to get us on

1803
01:48:09,960 --> 01:48:15,040
Speaker 7: the edge, to divide us as as a nation. They're

1804
01:48:15,040 --> 01:48:19,760
Speaker 7: doing everything everything they can to divide us. You know,

1805
01:48:19,800 --> 01:48:23,600
Speaker 7: the the word racist has lost all meaning. They just

1806
01:48:23,720 --> 01:48:28,000
Speaker 7: haphazardly throw that word out there. It's lost all meaning.

1807
01:48:28,640 --> 01:48:32,280
Speaker 7: And you know, I don't know, I don't know. I

1808
01:48:33,160 --> 01:48:35,840
Speaker 7: love President Trump. I voted for him three times now,

1809
01:48:36,720 --> 01:48:40,479
Speaker 7: but and I know that we have ways of getting

1810
01:48:40,680 --> 01:48:43,759
Speaker 7: stuff done, but it doesn't seem like they're doing anything.

1811
01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:48,160
Speaker 7: And you know, the American people are on edge about it.

1812
01:48:48,760 --> 01:48:49,680
Speaker 3: Where she's sick and.

1813
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:52,680
Speaker 7: Tired of being gaslighted and lied to and kept in

1814
01:48:52,720 --> 01:48:56,720
Speaker 7: the dark. You know, release that these stiles, let us

1815
01:48:56,760 --> 01:48:59,880
Speaker 7: know who these creeps are that are out there, you know,

1816
01:49:00,400 --> 01:49:02,639
Speaker 7: molesting children, Well.

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01:49:02,439 --> 01:49:05,080
Speaker 2: And the thing is, well, and the thing is, it's

1818
01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:08,400
Speaker 2: it's an easy one, right, just release it and and

1819
01:49:08,760 --> 01:49:11,680
Speaker 2: you're done with it. But all of this, you know,

1820
01:49:11,720 --> 01:49:13,920
Speaker 2: we just found a million documents. Well how do you

1821
01:49:14,040 --> 01:49:17,960
Speaker 2: just find a million documents? I mean, there's no credibility

1822
01:49:18,000 --> 01:49:19,040
Speaker 2: on any side on this.

1823
01:49:19,680 --> 01:49:20,400
Speaker 4: And then they have.

1824
01:49:20,439 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 7: To secretly go through this investigation now that they've gotten

1825
01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:27,679
Speaker 7: new documents, you know, And it's just like we're sick

1826
01:49:27,760 --> 01:49:32,160
Speaker 7: of it out here. We're tired of just government just

1827
01:49:32,200 --> 01:49:38,200
Speaker 7: sitting on their thumbs. This Minnesota thing, yeah, you know,

1828
01:49:38,360 --> 01:49:41,840
Speaker 7: the fraud out there taking place. This Nick Shirley guy's

1829
01:49:41,840 --> 01:49:45,879
Speaker 7: getting death threats because he's trying to expose the fraud.

1830
01:49:46,720 --> 01:49:50,439
Speaker 7: And you know, I don't know what we do about it.

1831
01:49:51,040 --> 01:49:52,400
Speaker 7: I don't know what we do about it.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you Bonnie. First, thanks for the call.

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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you did take the time to call in.

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Speaker 2: The What we do about it is to keep speaking

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Speaker 2: like you just did, and keep calling in and keep

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Speaker 2: let them know that we're sick and tired of this stuff?

1867
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Speaker 2: You speak up however you can. You'll let democrats know.

1868
01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:01,200
Speaker 2: If they happen to be your repper or your senator,

1869
01:52:01,479 --> 01:52:04,479
Speaker 2: you'll let them know how you feel, because you know

1870
01:52:04,600 --> 01:52:07,080
Speaker 2: they're hearing from their side. You know they're hearing from

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Speaker 2: the paid activists, and it is well time that we

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01:52:12,080 --> 01:52:17,599
Speaker 2: ordinary Americans let them know what we think. I don't

1873
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Speaker 2: know if the Epstein stuff makes any difference or not.

1874
01:52:22,200 --> 01:52:25,000
Speaker 2: I don't know. I know the fact that both sides

1875
01:52:25,040 --> 01:52:28,960
Speaker 2: are acting really weird about it. That makes my spidy

1876
01:52:29,040 --> 01:52:33,960
Speaker 2: sense tingle a little bit. But how about you people

1877
01:52:34,080 --> 01:52:40,759
Speaker 2: in government actually work for the American people, stop trying

1878
01:52:40,840 --> 01:52:45,240
Speaker 2: to cover up the corruption. How about you actually do

1879
01:52:45,360 --> 01:52:49,760
Speaker 2: your jobs. How about you actually figure a way to

1880
01:52:49,800 --> 01:52:52,280
Speaker 2: get rid of the corruption. I love the fact that

1881
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Speaker 2: the government is now freezing all sorts of big money

1882
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Speaker 2: to places like Minnesota. We're not going to give you

1883
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Speaker 2: any money through SBA or through some of the other

1884
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Speaker 2: programs until you can show us that it's being spent right.

1885
01:53:08,920 --> 01:53:12,400
Speaker 2: It's the only way to get people's attention, because these

1886
01:53:12,439 --> 01:53:15,920
Speaker 2: people love money and power, and the power that money

1887
01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:22,680
Speaker 2: brings hit them where they live, expose it, and most importantly,

1888
01:53:23,080 --> 01:53:25,800
Speaker 2: do your job now with the night toward reelection of

1889
01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:30,479
Speaker 2: the night, toward actually serving the people that you say

1890
01:53:30,479 --> 01:53:33,640
Speaker 2: you want to represent. Keep speaking up, folks. It's the

1891
01:53:33,840 --> 01:53:36,880
Speaker 2: only way to do it. Thank you Helen, Thank you

1892
01:53:36,960 --> 01:53:40,080
Speaker 2: Dylan for all of your great assistants back in Memphis.

1893
01:53:40,520 --> 01:53:43,320
Speaker 2: Mister Starnes, hope I didn't cost you too much problem today.

1894
01:53:43,320 --> 01:53:46,280
Speaker 2: It's always a privilege to sit behind this microphone and

1895
01:53:46,320 --> 01:53:49,360
Speaker 2: talk with all of you in Starn's Nation from the

1896
01:53:49,400 --> 01:53:52,800
Speaker 2: Liberty University Studio. Jeff Stein filling in for Todd, have

1897
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Speaker 2: a fantastic weekend. This has been the Todd Starns Show.